Mona Dajani

Biography

Mona Dajani is a partner in the New York and Chicago offices of Baker McKenzie and is an elected member of the Steering Committee for the Banking and Finance Group. She has served for more than 20 years as the lead lawyer in complex acquisitions, dispositions, financing and project development transactions involving energy and infrastructure facilities in the United States and around the world.

Mona has been recognized as a leading lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500, IFLR1000, Rising Legal Stars, Law 360, The Best Lawyers in America, 2013-2017 and other publications. In 2017, she was appointed as a Fellow to the Construction Lawyers Society, an accolade given to only 42 lawyers. She was elected to the national Board of Directors for the American Council of Renewable Energy (ACORE) in 2015.

Mona is also a regular contributor and commentator for International Financial Times, CNN Radio, POLITICO, Bloomberg Energy, FOX News, New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio and USA Today, among others.

Practice Focus

Mona has extensive experience structuring and negotiating joint ventures, project contracts and financing documents with the development, financing, purchase, and sale of complex energy and infrastructure projects with special expertise in energy, transportation, industrial and water sectors (including renewable energy, petrochemicals, oil and gas, LNG and power generation-related matters).

She is an author and contributes to Energy Law and Transactions, a seven volume comprehensive treatise that covers all traditional energy sources, such as oil, gas, electricity, and coal, as well as nontraditional energy technologies and sources, such as hydroelectricity, solar, nuclear, biomass, and cogeneration — from exploration and production through transmission, distribution, and final consumption by the end-user.

Admissions

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois~United States (1996)

Illinois~United States (1996)

Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law (1996)

University of St. Thomas (1992)

University of Illinois (1988)

Languages

Arabic

English

French

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